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Two obstetricians’ groups are now recommending COVID-19 shots for all pregnant women, citing concerns over rising cases and low vaccination rates.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned Amazon of 30 sexual enhancement and weight loss supplements sold on its website that contained “undeclared and potentially harmful drug ingredients,” according to a letter sent to the company.

Millions of people in the U.S. who haven’t gotten the COVID-19 vaccine could soon have a new reason to roll up their sleeves: money in their pockets.

A wealthy San Francisco couple notched a record nearly half-million-dollar buyout to vacate their luxury apartment of three decades.

California’s largest wildfire so far this year is flaring up, but authorities say it's because flames are chewing through unburned islands of vegetation within a perimeter that firefighters have built.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says she has no plans to ratchet up her messaging to urge people to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Frustrated would-be travelers are overwhelming U.S. offices as easing COVID-19 travel restrictions have unleashed a pent-up demand for passports.

More than 100 people had to spend the night on a highway, including nearly 30 who took refuge in a tunnel, after rain over an area burned by a wildfire once again triggered mudslides in western Colorado.

Families are starting to spend the money from the expanded child tax credit.

In another big setback for the nation’s efforts to stamp out the coronavirus, scientists who studied a big COVID-19 outbreak in Massachusetts concluded that vaccinated people who got so-called breakthrough infections carried about the same amount of the coronavirus as those who did not get the shots.

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 6 in 10 Democrats say they’re optimistic about their party’s future.

Disney World and Disneyland announced that they will require masks indoors again starting at the end of July, according to the company’s website.

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee was arrested Thursday during a protest in Washington D.C. where she was fighting for the expansion of voting rights.

The U.S. Navy says a sailor has been charged with starting a fire last year that destroyed a warship docked off San Diego.

Hospital admissions of coronavirus patients continue to soar in Florida with at least two areas in the state surpassing previous peaks reached during last summer’s surge.

Disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in Massachusetts in 1974.

A Missouri hospital that had no people hospitalized with COVID-19 just two months ago is now dealing with an onslaught of patients.

The survivors of the South Florida building collapse are receiving housing assistance from local charities and businesses.

A former member of NXIVM leader Keith Raniere's sex trafficking enterprise avoided prison at sentencing after prosecutors cited her extraordinary cooperation.

ZZ Top says bassist Dusty Hill, one of the Texas blues trio's bearded figures, has died at his Houston home.

U.S. health officials say the highly contagious delta version of the coronavirus is behind changes to mask guidelines.

A Wisconsin judge has found probable cause to charge a police officer in the 2016 slaying of a Black man, years after prosecutors declined to file charges.

Top health officials in the United States are recommending that vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in places where the coronavirus is surging.